File:Drawing, Botanical Studies, seen from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia, 1853 (CH 18197991).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, Botanical Studies, seen from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia, 1853   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q366212
Title
English: Drawing, Botanical Studies, seen from the Rio Magdalena, Colombia, 1853
Description
English: Top left: Tree tops; Bottom left: Palm tree tops; Central: Bamboo; Top right: Tree top; bottom right: a design and stem of a bamboo. A branch is shown beneath.
Date 1853
date QS:P571,+1853-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium graphite on gray wove paper
Dimensions 21.4 x 28.1 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-403
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Inscriptions Wm: parts of the letters K F
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Top left: written beside tree tops: "Beautiful soft masses of/lightish yellow green foliage/ of a velvety appear-/ ance -- Appears at/ times like a tree at others/ like a vine clustering among/ the darker masses of a tree."

Bottom left: Palm tree tops, caption: "2 Branch or leaf of / a rich orange and brown/ color this effect is common/ Palm." Central: "Bamboos". Top right: tree top caption: "small/tree with fern/ shaped leaves, fresh/ growth at the top/yellow green-Under/ darker and bluish/ very delicate." Bottom right: A design and "Stem of Bam-/ boo-joints whitish/ stem green, brown/ whitish etc. A branch is shown beneath.

[from Dee catalogue: Beautiful soft masses of / lightish yellow green foliage/ of velveyy appear-/ance--- Appears at/times like a tree at others/like a vine clustering among/the darker masses of a tree; at lower left: 2. Branch or leaf of /a rich orange and brown/color. This effect is common/Palm; at center: Bamboos; at upper right: small/tree with fern/shaped leaves, fresh/growth at the top/yellow green - Under/darker and bluish/ Very delicate; at lower right: Stem of Bam-/boo-joints whitish/stem green, brown/whitish etc.

  • Period: Hudson River School
  • Country: Colombia
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